Huge parachute dresses, fringing and bomber jackets pulled it back from the realm of over-finished and dropped it somewhere into a world where Cruel Intentions was shot as a spaghetti western and styled by Dior Couture.
It also absolved servicemen of having to hide their uniforms under Western-styled shirts while driving off-base, a practice adopted more recently for security reasons.
In the 1970s, these three stage-named women singing western-styled pop Haydeh, Googoosh, and Homeyra - were regulars on Iranian airwaves and household names among the urban youth.
Yet now that he could assess the historic Obama victory, Mr. Tang's reaction seemed akin to that of a sports fan dissecting a box score and betrayed none of the hopeful idealism once conferred on Western-styled democracy by young Chinese intellectuals.
Decked all out in retro black and white, it serves Hong Kong's specialised version of western-styled all-day breakfasts – like brick toasts and macaroni char siu soup, but the star of its menu has to be the black truffle scrambled eggs.
We need to ask: Was Nigeria right to adopt Western-styled democracy?
Implications in terms of the current trend to introduce Western-styled interfaces into other regions with little or no adaptation are discussed.
Echoing Cheng's (2011a: 1) view, reviving Confucianism as a moral-political philosophy and by incorporating the moral values into China's foreign policy has the potential to provide an alternative to Western-styled international relations.
Furthermore, in the pre-education level, children are exposed to "fun", western-styled preschool activities and an average of two and a half hours of extra-curricular community activity after school (BRAC 2016) to engage their interest in learning and build enthusiasm in investment behind education.
It's a great onion of politics and spirituality that cannot be quickly and neatly unpeeled by Western-styled democracy and a shipment of bed nets.
